David Lombard, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research  In “The Over-Soul” (1841), Emerson defines the eponymous concept as the “Unity” or “whole” within which “every man’s particular being is contained and made one with all other” (52). Although the Over-soul is ineffable, “[w]e know that all spiritual being is in man” and one can communicate … Continue reading Between Self-Reliance and Responsibility: Rereading the Emersonian Sublime in an Age of Crisis